191:. The Alberta government is also currently looking to recover $ 4,500 in unpaid corporate taxes from his company, NewView. Sandhu is also alleged to have orchestrated a smear campaign against an Edmonton journalist. Sandhu was found guilty of breaching the Conflicts of Interest Act by failing to disclose a number of court cases against his company while he lobbied for changes to the Builders' Lien Act, but the ethics commissioner determined there "was no underlying motive and no deliberate effort to mislead," and so imposed no penalties for this violation.
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Peter Sandhu began building homes on the side while still working as a crane operator at the plant. For 10 years, he worked two jobs; a homebuilder and realtor by day and a crane operator by night. He later quit at the steel plant and focused on his homebuilding business, which he has now owned for 16 years.
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Sandhu, who grew up in a farming family, left his native India for Canada at the age of 18 in 1979, settling in the
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